Can someone please tell me what I’m not seeing that I’m doing wrong? I can see I need to lean back more first, then push the bars forward more while bringing up my legs to level out, but how do I transfer the power from my arms to my legs? I feel like although my legs engage, most of the work is done by my arms pulling bars to hips. I can’t seem to really get the feeling of “jumping off the back wheel and pulling the bike up to you.”
Funny how we seemed to only have to jump and it happened with our 90s bikes.
Bunnyhop – how to be more legs less arms
byu/Darthxinsidious inbmx
by Darthxinsidious
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One motion. It looks like you’re cocking back like a wheelie then bumping up+fowards. Keep it up tho.
Do the windup squat farther back, *behind* the rear axle if you can, Keep your arms straight until the front is up then reel it in pulling on the bars. It’s a *lot* easier to lift the front when your weight isn’t leaning forward. If you were behind the back wheel at ~4 seconds instead of scrunched forward you *probably* could have gotten another foot out of that hop. EDIT: Watching [Jack Carthy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy8717TCga0) is an absolute master class in bunnyhopping.